Manteo High School: English Department: Common Goals2010
B. Vogt
Unit Name:
Unit 6: Themes in Literature Heroes and Dreamers
Grade Level:
English I
Texts Used:
Reading Skills Focus: Cultural and Historical Context From the Odyssey: Epic, pg. 950-Prentice Hall Literature: “Ithaca”; “Siren’s Song”; “An Ancient Gesture”; “Odysseus”; “Circe”; “Calypso”; “Penelope”; “Penelope”; Greek Myths”
Langston Hughes’ “A Dream Deferred” and “Dreams”, pp. 566; William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, p. 568; Jean de Sponde’s “Sonnets on Love XIII”, p. 573; Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”, p. 578; Stanley Kunitz’s “The War Against the Trees”, p.581; William Stafford’s “Fifteen”, p. 633; Walter Dean Myers’ “Summer”, p. 592; and Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”, p. 606.
Skills:
Level 2
Vocabulary/literary elements (define, identify)
Epic hero; epic;Homeric /epic simile;flashback; media res; historical and cultural context,; protagonist; antagonist; archetype; hero’s quest,; trickster;time; monster; circle; values; alliteration; assonance; metaphor; myths; fantasy; consonance; metaphor; onomatopoeia; repetition; theme; imagery; rhyme; haiku; sonnet; narrative ballad; lyric; stanzas; personification;rhythm; scansion, and other figurative language terms.
Content (characters, basic plot, author)
What defines the epic and the epic hero? What are stanzas and figurative language? What form of language is the most compressed and yet has the highest level of meaning? Whatarchetypes appear in historical cultures?
Level 3
Themes/Big Ideas
How is a culture defined by its oral and written traditions?
Level 4
Connections (to world, other texts, self, inference)
§How are hero quest of the past compared to the hero quest of today? §How are the values of past heroes different than the values represent by heroes today?
Writing
§Create an Archetype poster and a literary terms poster /Collaboration for research, sharing ideas and web sites. §Write a book report about a fantasy book §Write an essay about the values of a hero and include the information about a contemporary hero §Create a Newspaper about fantasy, myths, and the Odyssey and your Odyssey §Timed Writing: The Odyssey has always been considered an important work.Write an explanation why Western culture has valued this epic.Use details from the text to support Your assumptions.
NCSCS:
2.02 Explain commonly used terms and concepts 2.03 Instruct an audience in how to perform specific operations or procedures 3.01 Study argument 3.02 Express an informed opinion 3.03 Support that informed opinion 3.04 Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print argumentative texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus 4.02 Read and critique various genres 4.03 Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print critical texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus 5.01 Read and analyze various literary works 5.02 Demonstrating increasing comprehension and ability to respond personally to texts by selecting and exploring a wide range of genres. 6.01 Demonstrate an understanding of conventional written and spoken expression 6.02 Discern and correct errors in spoken and written English
B. Vogt
Heroes and Dreamers
From the Odyssey: Epic, pg. 950-Prentice Hall Literature:
“Ithaca”; “Siren’s Song”; “An Ancient Gesture”; “Odysseus”; “Circe”; “Calypso”; “Penelope”; “Penelope”; Greek Myths”
Langston Hughes’ “A Dream Deferred” and “Dreams”, pp. 566; William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, p. 568; Jean de Sponde’s “Sonnets on Love XIII”, p. 573; Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”, p. 578; Stanley Kunitz’s “The War Against the Trees”, p.581; William Stafford’s “Fifteen”, p. 633; Walter Dean Myers’ “Summer”, p. 592; and Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”, p. 606.
What are stanzas and figurative language?
What form of language is the most compressed and yet has the highest level of meaning?
Whatarchetypes appear in historical cultures?
§How are the values of past heroes different than the values represent by heroes today?
§Write a book report about a fantasy book
§Write an essay about the values of a hero and include the information about a contemporary hero
§Create a Newspaper about fantasy, myths, and the Odyssey and your Odyssey
§Timed Writing: The Odyssey has always been considered an important work.Write an explanation why Western culture has valued this epic.Use details from the text to support Your assumptions.
2.03 Instruct an audience in how to perform specific operations or procedures
3.01 Study argument
3.02 Express an informed opinion
3.03 Support that informed opinion
3.04 Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print argumentative texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus
4.02 Read and critique various genres
4.03 Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print critical texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus
5.01 Read and analyze various literary works
5.02 Demonstrating increasing comprehension and ability to respond personally to texts by selecting and exploring a wide range of genres.
6.01 Demonstrate an understanding of conventional written and spoken expression
6.02 Discern and correct errors in spoken and written English